Chinese Lunar Calendar

LunarCal

Perpetual Chinese Calendar

Links - Calendars & Astronomical Resources

Calendars

1	The Calendar Zone -- Bringing Order to Calendrical Chaos! Most comprehensive site containing links to many other calendar web sites. Very good site. Start here if you are lost with calendars or need more information on various other calendars - Mayan, Hebrew, etc..
2	Chinese Culture - Jim Shan's Chinese calendars, horoscopes, history, also has lots of links to other Chinese websites.
3	Western-Chinese Calendar Converter Convert dates between Gregorian and Chinese calendar.
4	Java Calendar Conversions Java programs to convert dates between various calendars.
5	Calendrical Calculations Information on major world calendars with conversion examples.

Chinese Astronomy / Space Exploration

1	China National Space Administration Official China Astronautics Site. (English & Chinese)
2	Space exploration - China.
3	GO Taikonauts An unofficial Chinese Space website. Contains news on China's space news, rocket & satellite launches and data. This site appears inactive.

Astronomy

1	Solar System Simulator Live simulation of the solar system. Very interesting.
2	Solar System Live Another site for looking at the solar system from different angles.
3	IPS Planetarium Resources International Planetary Society
4	The Planetary Society
5	Welcome to the Planets - JPL
6	National Space Data Center NSSDC (NASA)
7	The International Astronomical Union - IAU
8	Explanation of various Astronomical terms - NASA Very good source of information.

Space Images

1	Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive (NASA) Has a new picture every day with commentary by a scientist/astronomer. Also has an archive of many interesting/beautiful digital CCD images over the last few years.
2	Hubble Heritage Project - Pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope Excellent deep sky pictures.
3	The Galileo Moon Images (SSI & SEPO) Images taken by the Galileo space probe.
4	USGS Solar System Charts & Maps Good images of the planets of the solar system.
5	Espenak's Eclipse Home Page (NASA) Great pictures of eclipses, lots of information of eclipses.
6	SDAC Eclipse Information (NASA) NASA's information and images of various eclipses.
7	Astronomy Plus CCD Images of Galaxies, Uni of Oregon Lots of digital images of the Solar System.

Astronomy / Space Exploration News

1	NASA Homepage Contains excellent resources on astronautics, space and astronomy. Good site for beginners and advanced astronomers.
2	Space Weather Bureau Lots of daily updated space weather - magnetic storms, solar flares, etc.
3	Sky and Telescope Magazine -- Home Page Very good magazine on astronomy. Good astronomy tips, software, and projects.

Astronomy Software

1	Home Planet Great software with emphasis on the Moon. Calculates planetary positions and Moon phases.

Satellites (Natural & Artificial)

1	CelesTrak Current NORAD Two-Line Element Sets
2	J-Track 3D Very good site. Has Java script to interactively track selected satellites.
3	Orbital Elements Get the latest TLE elements here.
4	Spacelink - Current Satellite Tracking Elements
5	LogSat Professional - Satellite Tracking Software for Windows
6	Visual Satellite Observer's Home Page
7	Heavens-Above Good site for tracking satellites.
8	International Space Station Details of progress of the construction of the ISS and possible sightings from Earth.
	TLEsort is a program (runs under Win9x/NT DOS window) that sorts the standard TLE "triplets" as currently distributed by the above sites. I have been concentrating on the LunarCal and have not had chance to convert the program to have a full windows GUI interface. I shall create a similar program like LunarCal to track satellites later. You may download this program. It freeware.

In addition to the above web sites, you may wish to subscribe to the various free email newsletters offered by NASA, etc. Details of which are available at the various websites.

Please email me (details at homepage) if there are any good website(s) that you feel should be listed here. (I do not accept emails from hotmail accounts due to recent developments [read this]).